Congress could change the jurisdiction of the (US) Federal Courts so that anyone who is victimized by a back door can sue the people who put it in for $1 per byte of data that can not be proven to not be affected. That would be Trillion$ per PC hacked.

Congress could make it a "corporate felony" to distribute anything you put a back door into. When I say "corporate felony" I mean a new class of felony where every officer of that corporation and every owner of that corporation (including stock holders) all serve the prison sentence. If there is a 3-year prison sentence handed down for a "corporate felony" then every stock holder and everyone who can speak on behalf of the corporation goes to prison for 3 years each.

If we had a legitimate, honest government, this could be solved before the end of the week.

Right now, we have no way to calibrate how much pain someone is in, except to show them cartoon faces and to ask them for an answer on a scale of 1 to 10.

If we could see how much pain someone is really in with a test, it would help us give the right pain medications to the right patients - avoiding much opioid abuse and avoiding leaving people in pain.

If we could see how much pain someone is really in with a test, it would help the courts stop scammers who sue over minor traffic accidents and help the courts give appropriate awards to those who are really in pain.

If we could see how much pain someone is really in with a test, it would help us decide who needs disability and who needs to get back to work.

The authors of this study seem to think all storage is running 24/7. I use 18TB USB Hard Disks for backups / cold storage. Their power consumption over their lifetime is about $0.01. I only care about cost per TB and reliability in cold storage.

>You can't escape from society

Tell that to half of East Texas.

The System has screwed us so badly, that this is not America. Our "country" is not remotely close to being recognizable as the greatest and freest nation on Earth.

When do we stop supporting The System that keeps screwing us?

When does Atlas shrug and walk away, headed for Galt's Gulch?

I've been hacked over the phone with semi-audible noise.

There is no reason for the sound drivers to be in the networking stack, MICROSOFT! But the sound drivers ARE in the networking stack because MICROSOFT wants us to get hacked.

I miss my old Ortek MCK-142Pro. It was a masterpiece until it literally fell apart.

Someone could stand out from the crowd and make a lot of money by building and selling a mechanical keyboard kit that matches that form factor.

I love Intel Xeon based workstation. My antique Dell T7400 would still work as my daily machine, if there were Windows10 drivers for it.

You can buy a HP Z440 on eBay for $130, with Windows 10 on it. It can be upgraded to tens of TB of NVMEs, 256 GB of quad-channel RAM, a 28 core processor, and dual video cards.

The only limit on the lifetime of a Xeon based workstation is Windows driver support.

This was an issue we dealt with in the 1990's, and for decades before and after that.

Today we know all undersea cables will be cut and tapped in the first week.

Chat GPT told me it is illegal to make firearms at home (in the USA.)

I pointed out that the AFT disagrees and cited this source: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/q...

Chat GPT would not back down.

This is far below human level intelligence to not be able to understand a link to ATF.gov. This is California Legislature level stupid.

That story summary is a lie.

The FBI and the Biden Administration ordered a story suppressed to the point that maybe a million people suffered permanent harm through government-ordered censorship.

This is impeachable.
This is felonious.

US Federal Law should require that every product work in offline mode. There should be a hardware switch.

The author of the article thinks exceeding our (I live in Texas) past record for power generation and usage is a bad thing. I guess that eco-person missed the point of this program. We can increase our base load plants instead of increasing our peaking plants. Base load plants are cheaper per KW*H and are cleaner. The new base load plants can power special commercial interests like crypto currency mining and manufacturing for 95% of the year, and power the grid like peaking plants for the other 5% of the year. This is a win-win for everyone who does not want to kill off humanity (so the eco-people lose.)

I try to look at everything from the point of view of the underdog. Every story talks about politicians and the mothers. Nobody is talking about the unborn baby's point of view.

Mothers have it easy. Nobody is going to poison them to death, or to dismember them in a brutal murder. They have the option (in Texas) after engaging in coitus of their own free will to follow the law and put up with a few months of inconvenience. Instead, they risk their lives and criminal records to kill their babies. Given mandatory FMLA leave (which is paid leave in the places where the aborters are most frenzied,) given laws against discriminating against mothers, and given the positive view of adoption, nobody has an excuse to kill their child to avoid a few months of inconvenience.

Aborters claim their babies are not people, in the same way some the Dred Scott decision once claimed blacks were not people. Imagine going down in history as a slave owner who violently dismembers your slave to avoid a few months of inconvenience.

Here is a bit of detail on how most 2nd trimester abortions are performed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I can not imagine an aborter's point of view. What did the baby do to them? The baby had no choice! If you are "pro-choice" then you should say let the baby live for now and maybe the baby decides to kill himself or herself later in life. Don't take that choice away from an innocent child!

I used to be a Christian. Now I'm not so sure. How can God forgive aborters and the murderous scum that support them?

The Dobbs decision was a partial step. We are a long ways from declaring all abortion to be a capital crime and hunting down the aborters.

As you consider this debate, know that the media lies for the baby killers. I predict the following 2 stories and dozens of others about people "needing" to kill their babies because of extraordinary circumstances turn out to be lies:

10-year-old girl denied abortion in Ohio BY CAROLINE VAKIL - 07/02/22 9:30 AM ET
https://thehill.com/policy/hea...

Texan has out-of-state abortion to end heartbreaking and dangerous pregnancy, she says BY MITCHELL WILLETTS JULY 03, 2022 12:25 PM
https://www.star-telegram.com/...

If they want a standard module to exchange processors, including (for example) swapping a 6th generation Intel Core for a 12th generation Intel Core for an AMD processor, they could use a ComExpress Module type 6.

I have heard an objection that somehow these are too expensive. That's silly. They would make their own modules, just like they make everything else. They just need to follow the standard.

Then a 10-year-old laptop can be upgraded in minutes to the newest processor.

It would not be a bad idea to require these module interfaces in all new PCs (except for a few high-end workstations.)